By Julie Tapley-Booth
Special to The PREVIEW
The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College hosts Sara A. Porterfield’s lecture “The Colorado River in Global Perspective” on Monday, Oct. 27, at 6 p.m. in the Center of Southwest Studies’ Lyceum Room at Fort Lewis College in Durango.
Porterfield is the center’s inaugural doctoral fellow in southwestern history. The fellowship is a collaborative effort between the center and the graduate program in the history department at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Porterfield’s research focuses on the engineers and river runners who have traveled in to and out of the river basin. Such engineers include Floyd Dominy, the commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1959 to 1969. Dominy is perhaps best known for championing the controversial Echo Park and Glen Canyon dams in the Colorado River Basin, though he also wrote a comprehensive plan for southeast Asia’s Mekong River.
For more information, please contact the center’s business office at 247-7456 or visit http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu.
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